# Napoleon and the Rosetta Stone

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Podcast: [History Shorts](https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-shorts-6691663)
Published: 2026-05-11T04:00:00+00:00
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In 1799, amid the chaos of military conquest, one of history's greatest discoveries quietly emerged from the sands of Egypt. During Napoleon Bonaparte 's campaign, French soldiers stumbled upon a black basalt slab that would change our understanding of the ancient world forever—the Rosetta Stone . In this episode of History Shorts , we explore how this accidental find became the key to unlocking the lost language of hieroglyphs. Decades later, scholars like Jean-François Champollion used the stone's inscriptions—written in Greek, Demotic, and hieroglyphics—to finally decipher a script that had been silent for centuries. This is a story of war, discovery, and intellectual triumph—where a campaign for empire unexpectedly opened a window into one of humanity's oldest civilizations. SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast ADVERTISE : https://www.historyshortspodcast.com/advertise LEARN MORE: https://www.historyshortspodcast.com/ SPONSORED BY: https://www.podcastrepublic.net/get-it-now

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